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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
They happen thousands of times a year, where an armed citizen stops a crime, mostly just by the presence of a firearm. National media never picks up those stories....
There are actually a bunch of studies that show this, but the most widely known is the study by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, completed in the 1990s, when violent crime rates were higher than they are today. That study found that there were somewhere between 830,000 and 2.45 million defensive gun uses per year in the United States.
Look up the study by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, ?Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun,? Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 86 (1995): 173.
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now you are just making up shit to convince others that people like you are justified in carrying around heat everywhere you go.. guess what? It's not working.
It absolutely does not prevent thousands of crimes, not even hundreds.. more like a few dozen at best. It's nothing more than wishful thinking that you can come in and save the day and prevent shit like this from happening. When it does, not only will you not be ready for it, you wont stop it from happening either.
You fire a pea shooter at a guy with an assault rifle you are just wearing a big sign saying shoot me next nothing more.